CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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Priests de la Resistance by Fergus Butler-Gallie
Timely reminder of religious figures who took a stand against ‘first-wave’ fascism
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
New releases from Javon Jackson, IZE Trio, and Mal Waldron Trio
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
THE ANTIPATHY or bewilderment of some socialists and communists to people of faith may mean that the recent publication of Priests de la Resistance has probably passed them by.
That would be a shame.
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